A Pakistani man wished by the FBI shall be extradited to New York from Canada to face trial on terrorism fees.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, 20, is accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired mass taking pictures at a Brooklyn Jewish middle on Oct. 7. The Justice Division didn’t disclose the precise location he was focusing on.
At an extradition listening to in Montreal Thursday, the younger man often known as “Shahzeb Jadoon,” agreed to not struggle his handover to US federal authorities.
Khan entered Canada on a scholar visa in Could 2023, although it’s unclear whether or not he really attended faculty in any respect. By November 2023, he was already on the FBI’s radar for allegedly expressing sympathy for the unconventional Islamic group ISIS, on his social media, in keeping with the federal grievance.
An FBI investigation uncovered Khan’s alleged plan to kind a gaggle of co-conspirators and kill “as many Jewish individuals as doable” within the identify of ISIS, on Oct. 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas assault on Israel.
Khan hoped the bloodbath would go down in historical past as “the most important US assault since 9/11,” in keeping with the felony grievance filed within the Southern District of New York.
“Brothers . . . we’re going to NYC to slaughter them Inshalah,” Khan allegedly wrote on encrypted messaging apps. “Inshalah” is Arabic for “if God wills it.”
Khan was apprehended 12 miles from the US border on Sept. 4 — one month earlier than his deliberate assault — — with a pocketful of money the FBI says was meant to pay a smuggler to get him throughout the Canada-US border.
If convicted, Khan faces a most sentence of 20 years in jail.
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